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Homebuilt Aircraft/Aviation Home Page
My Homebuilt Aircraft/Aviation Page.
I have always been interested in aviation and remember being given a plastic F-86
Sabre model by my future brother-in-law. Unfortunately, I was a little kid at the time
(sixish) and it eventually got broken and thrown away.
I have attended every Experimental Aircraft Association flyin at Oshkosh since 1972.
After a few years of visiting friends in Madison, Wisconsin, and then journeying to
B'gosh, I started camping at Wittman Field with a cousin and other friends. The flyin
registration desk asked me if I was my cousins son (which got me in at a reduced rate)
and, being cheap, I then became his "kid" for a few years. Many years later, I realized
that I had given up a very low EAA number for money I wouldn't have missed.
My EAA number today is 107359.
I tend to take 72 photographs per year (72 x 25 = 1800 slides!) and can toss them on
the wall until the cows come home (and tell stories the entire time). But, I won't do
that here...unless I can figure out a way to load dusk-til-dawn audio files! What I've
done is select slides from varying years and types for a cross-section of the convention.
Each photo is explained below.
Photos, left to right are 1 through 6. See table below for photo explanation.
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| Photo #1. Taken at the 1979 convention. A 1909 Bellanca replica. A passenger sits behind the pilot, straddling the "fuselage". This plane was later wrecked and the pilot's wife died in the crash. Photo #2. Three B-25's taking off during a re-creation of the 50th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, 1993. Photo #3. The nearly complete P-38 that was removed from inside a glacier in Greenland in 19??. The plane was under 450 feet of ice. Only the fuselage center (pilots section) remained in the ice when I took this photograph. A day or two later the PA system announced that it too had been brought to the surface. Photo #4. The Short Sunderland, a WWII era British floatplane that is the last of the species. Before it's appearance at Oshkosh it was to haul passengers on dinner flights off the Thames River just outside London. For reasons unknown to me the venture failed and the Sunderland is now owned by Kermit Weeks in Florida. Photo #5. Barnaby Wainfan's Facetmobile. This strange animal was flown to the 1994 convention from California, proving it's airworthiness. The Rotax engine later quit (somewhere in California) and it ended up tangling with a fence and is now being rebuilt. See "links" for the Facetmobile home page. Photo #6. A 1954 Cessna 195, taken in 19??. I have never been excited by these fast, all metal, cruisers but, in order to show what is at the flyins, I try to photograph what is there and not necessarily what I like. |
Photos, left to right, are 7 through 12.
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Photos, left to right, 13 through 18.
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The BARF Page
(the Beresford Area Radio Flyers Homepage)
The Experimental Aircraft Association
The International Women's Air and Space Museum
Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome and Museum
Look at these but DON'T DO THIS AT HOME!